i am a pillock

While going through a break-up that is, at times, very emotionally intense, might I offer the following advice:

As you clean out the garage, to ease the moving to separate houses, do not - that is, do NOT:

* Rifle through old bags full of letters and such

* Recognise your ex-partner's handwriting on a page that turns out to be a love letter from her from the first year of your relationship, some 14 years ago, and read it.

* Recognise your own hand-writing on a letter that you never sent her after you both went to different ends of the country while you attended university, written at the height of your adolescent depression, in which you pour your broken wee heart out, and didn't send her because you thought it would drive her away... and read it.

ow Ow OW OW FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK

yeah, just pass me that scalpel, willya? no, the rusty one...

AND, before you think I'm getting (more) whiney and sentimental, right, today, we also took car-loads of junk to the local refuse centre and I THREW AWAY A DECADE'S WORTH OF FUCKING PORNOGRAPHY recorded onto black, unmarked VHS tapes*.

So frankly, it's BEEN EMOTIONAL.

Well, actually, we got a really good day's worth of house-clearing done today, and it was relaxed and friendly and I'm glad we did it. But you know.

So, anyway, now I'm going to eat some pizza and shoot some motherfucking super-mutants in Fallout 3.


* If the youth of today still had VHS machines, it would have been customary to dump this pornographic neutron star of filth in the bushes in the local woodland, for later discovery by teenage boys, as is the lore of British men.

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Do any of you whores have Wii Speak (and/or Animal Crossing for Wii)?

I'm on 1811 - 5680 - 9537 - 9049 for Wii speak
and my Animal Crossing Code is 0044 - 7436 - 4566... I'm JohnnyD, in MegaTon, with oranges as our local fruit :)

Vista passable once brutally de-knackered shocker

While I think about it, I bought a laptop over christmas so I had something high-ish power to do music and dayjob work on while out and about, core 2 duo 2.0ghz, 4gb ram, etc, and it came with fucking Vista.

So I thought "I'll give this a go for two weeks, then murder it and put XP on".

Thing is, I turned off UAC and a few other nags, uninstalled all the preloaded Acer shit (especially McAfee scamware piece of shit AV), and ran a program called "TweakVI" that resets the user interface to look like Windows 2000, all flat, no fading, shadows or effects or anything...

... and it's been very stable, very fast, and I decided to keep it.

Controversial!

Admittedly, on a lappy or bought system, you know you'll have the drivers, and I made sure I got something with 4gb of ram, as I know it's hungry.

I know that my home-rolled (Nlited) version of XP would fly like a motherfucking eagle on this machine, but still, I expected it to suck more balls than this. It's... acceptable. I assume that if I did the same to Vista with Vlite, it'd be comparably slender.

You may de-friend me in disgust now.

I made myself sick in my mouth a bit.